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The press corps is outraged that the White House waited 20 hours or so to disclose that Vice President Dick Cheney had shot a hunting companion, and we can see why. Don't these Bush people understand that the coverup is worse than the crime?
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• 11:27 a.m., Monday. Mr. McClellan finally holds a press conference and gets grilled. One reporter actually asks (and we're not making this one up), "Would this be much more serious if the man had died?"
For the record, Mr. McClellan replied, "Of course it would." We hope the 78-year-old Mr. Whittington recovers promptly after his heart attack yesterday. As for the Beltway press corps, it has once again earned the esteem in which it is held by the American public. — (Opinion Journal)
...here's some other great one-liners, from an email circulating 'round:
ReplyDelete"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." --- Stephen Bishop
"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." -- Winston Churchill (about Clement Atlee)
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." --- Irvin S. Cobb
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." --- Clarence Darrow
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." --- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others." --- Samuel Johnson
"He had delusions of adequacy." --- Walter Kerr
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." --- Groucho Marx
"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." --- Thomas Brackett Reed
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." --- Forrest Tucker
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." --- Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." --- Mae West
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." --- Oscar Wilde
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." --- Oscar Wilde
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." --- Billy Wilder
I firmly predict he'll say something about having cut himself worse shaving with a straight razor. Or some other good-ole-boy metaphor.
ReplyDeleteI agree--also--the pic circulating of Cheney wearing those ear protectors--all of us who've hunted in a moving group know the need to hear is pretty important for situational awareness and. Somebody oughtta say something about those ear-protectors.
ReplyDeleteCheney talking live to FoxNews in a few minutes, says CNBC.
ReplyDeleteHugh Hewitt did a good take down of the media on this.
ReplyDeleteAnd while everyone from Glenn Reynolds to Dana Milbank can give Cheney a hard time on how he handled this...I tend to agree with David. I think they would have crucified him no matter what he did or said and no doubt there would have been all kinds of people claiming they would have handled it differently.
I heard it was actually 14 hours to official notice of press.
knucklehead:
ReplyDeleteHey, that is their J.O.B.
Screeching like hens.
Can't you see Gregory sticking a mike in the face of a scared and upset relative and asking how it feels to have Dad gunned down by the VP?
Also coming to light is the time it took to run down Whittington's far-flung family, and heads-up them before the headlines hit 'em outta the blue.
ReplyDeleteo/t, but the man who stole "Forrest Gump" is sure a decent feller.
ReplyDeleteMellisa:
ReplyDeleteI got the impression that is was Cheney's idea to contact the press, he just let the ranch owner do it because while she may be Miss Nobody to the folks in the Beltway she is somebody down there in Texas.
Hey, Melissa--go Horns, I'm just a little west of ya, between Blanco (home of Shelly Duvall) and Dripping (home of Lance Armstrong) Springs. I used to work around Corpus, and know the Caller well. Good paper, much, much better than NYTimes or WaPo.
ReplyDeleteActually, I just isolated that feature in the 'paint' program and enlarged it (nothing Mr. Gore doesn't do himself, on an almost baily dasis). Had to 'draw' the schnozz, tho--also in 'paint'. Al P. Nocchio.
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